--- title: ‘Make ready for thy marriage,’ cried he, ‘for the wedding shall take… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Make ready for thy marriage,’ cried he, ‘for the wedding shall take place this very night, and I will summon thy bride to greet thee.’ Who acts: father, I, thy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, thy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:29:32 # text = ‘Make ready for thy marriage,’ cried he, ‘for the wedding shall take place this very night, and I will summon thy bride to greet thee.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 obj _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 summon summon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 31 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | infinitive | | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | father | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** | shall | | place | | | night | for the wedding | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument place=Theme this=Destination | | 4 | **summon** | future | I | | thy bride | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient | | 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 6 | **marry** | | thy | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/33/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/)